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Part of the plant rescue team (left to right): Elsie Foster-Dublin, Ruth
Bowers, Karen Swaine, Brandon Dublin, Loren Muldowney, Carol Avelsgaard
Photo: Arnold Henderson
Samples of woodland wildflowers threatened by the Route 18 extension along Metlars Lane
(Kilmer Woods/Rutgers Ecological Preserve) were saved May 11 by a plant rescue team. With University permission, members
of the Environmental Commission, Shade Tree Advisory Committee, and Native Plant Society of New Jersey dug out samples
of Jack-in-the-pulpit, spring beauty, and trout lily, along with seedling red cedar trees. These were later planted at
the Native Plant Reserve on River Road. 5/02
Map of Route 18 Extension along Metlars Lane (top of map is northwest).
River Road is to the left and the Kilmer Woods extends across most of the
bottom of the map. The plant rescue site was toward the right in the north
corner of the Kilmer Woods, in the areas of yellow (roadway) and green
(roadside grass).